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Tuesday, 26 July 2022 203 [No 22—2022] FOURTH SESSION, SIXTH PARLIAMENT NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES ________________________ INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER ________________________ NOTE: 1.

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Table of Contents GOVERNANCE Cluster 3B Minister in The Presidency: Governance ........................................................... 205, 206, 208 Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities ....................... ........................................................................................................... 204, 205, 206, 207 Page (Replies to be submitted at: ncopquestions@parliament.gov.za 204 Tuesday, 26 July 2022 [No 22—2022] FOURTH SESSION, SIXTH PARLIAMENT QUESTIONS FOR ORAL REPLY THURSDAY, 4 AUGUST 2022 Sexual violence against women/youth 23.
Mr A Arnolds (Western Cape: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What recent measures are in place to address sexual violence that is perpetrated against women and children (details furnished)?

CO529E Persons with disabilities living on streets 24.
Mr K Motsamai (Gauteng: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What measures of intervention have been taken to assist the residents of Lethabong Informal Settlement in the Emfuleni Local Municipality who are living with disabilities but have been left on the streets after their shacks were demolished in May?

CO530E Skills development investments 25.


Ms S B Lehihi (North West: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What skills development investments have been initiated in 2022 to empower persons with disabilities as economically active citizens (details furnished)?

CO531E Employment rate of persons with disabilities 26.
Mr S Zandamela (Mpumalanga: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What is the current employment rate of persons with disabilities in the Government in each province (details furnished)?

CO532E Employability of persons with disabilities 27.
Ms S A Luthuli (KwaZulu-Natal: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What recent initiatives have been taken to encourage the employability of persons with disabilities (details furnished)?

CO533E Tuesday, 26 July 2022 205 [No 22—2022] FOURTH SESSION, SIXTH PARLIAMENT Assistance to Old Age Homes 28.
Ms B T Mathevula (Limpopo: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What measures of intervention have been taken to assist various Old Age Homes which cater for persons with disabilities?

CO534E Income gap of persons with disabilities 29.
Mr M S Moletsane (Free State: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What interventions she has taken to bridge the income gap between persons with disabilities in urban areas compared to those in rural areas (details furnished)?

CO535E Protecting/securing NCII/related systems 30.
Mr A Arnolds (Western Cape: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: Whether any measures are in place to protect and secure the National Critical Information Infrastructure and related systems; if not, why not; if so, (a) what measures and (b) what are the further relevant details?

CO536E Ailing state of local municipalities 31.


Mr M S Moletsane (Free State: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: (a) What consequence measures have been taken against the persons who are responsible for the ailing state of the local municipalities such as Tokologo, Masilonyana and Mafube in the Free State (details furnished) and (b) what intervention measures are in place to rescue such municipalities?

CO537E Assistance by Presidential Hotline 32.


Mr K Motsamai (Gauteng: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: Whether any service delivery matters have been resolved by the Presidential Hotline in 2022; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

CO538E Public sector monitoring/capacity development 33.
Mr S Zandamela (Mpumalanga: EFF) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: Whether, with reference to his responsibility in public sector monitoring and capacity development, any interventions have been made in building the capacity of the local government sphere (details furnished); if not, why not; if so, what interventions?

CO539E 206 Tuesday, 26 July 2022 [No 22—2022] FOURTH SESSION, SIXTH PARLIAMENT Assistance to municipalities/provinces 34.
Mr T J Brauteseth (KwaZulu-Natal: DA) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: What actions his department is taking to assist the municipalities and provinces in order to facilitate speedy access to much needed funds to alleviate the pain that has been felt by the citizens who were affected by the biggest natural disaster in the South African history (details furnished)?

CO540E Construction of temporary residential units 35.
Mr T J Brauteseth (KwaZulu-Natal: DA) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: What action his department will take to act within its mandate and urgently intervene with the Department of Human Settlements in order to construct the temporary residential units (details furnished)?

CO541E Escalating aggression against women/children 36.
Mr M R Bara (Gauteng: DA) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What actions her department has taken to address the escalating aggression against women and children as alluded to by the President in his state-of-the-nation-address in 2022 that Gender-Based Violence and Femicide are the country’s ‘second pandemic’ (details furnished)?

CO542E Programme to develop skills 37.


Mr M R Bara (Gauteng: DA) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What actions she is taking to ensure that a programme in entrepreneurship skills will be developed for the unacceptably high number of unemployed youth and persons with disabilities in an effort to enable them to gain employment (details furnished)?

CO543E Promoting economic strength/empowerment 38.
Mr M R Bara (Gauteng: DA) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: Whether she has taken any steps to promote women, youth and persons with disabilities’ economic strengthening and empowerment inclusion since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic (details furnished); if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

CO544E Tuesday, 26 July 2022 207 [No 22—2022] FOURTH SESSION, SIXTH PARLIAMENT Mechanisms to foster cooperation between line departments 39.
Ms B N Ndongeni (Eastern Cape: ANC) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: (1) Whether her department has developed sufficient mechanisms to foster cooperation between line departments in advancing mainstreaming of gender equality in its policies and programmes; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether her department has considered the mechanisms of drawing the experiences emanating from the Women’s Charter Review that is currently driven by Parliament in putting together a broad policy and legislative framework to foster gender mainstreaming; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
CO545E Gender representation in Science/Engineering/Technology sector 40.
Ms M N Gillion (Western Cape: ANC) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: (1) Whether her department has any engagements with the Science, Engineering and Technology sector (SET), including the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the Department of Basic Education to develop interventions and drawing up the programmes to deal with the anomaly in the gender representation of women in the SET sector; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) what measures her department is putting in place to engage the SET sector to move with greater urgency and speed in expanding the representation and participation of women in the said sector?
CO546E Baseline study conducted/commissioned 41.

Ms N E Nkosi (Mpumalanga: ANC) to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: Whether any baseline study has been conducted and/or commissioned by her department on the conditions of women in South Africa that feeds to government planning and service delivery priorities (details furnished); if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

CO547E Challenges/successes on empowerment programmes 42.
Mr I Ntsube (Free State: ANC) to ask the Minister in The Presidency Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities: What (a) challenges were experienced and (b) successes were achieved regarding the empowerment programmes for persons with disabilities since the establishment of the Presidential Working Group on Disabilities?

CO548E 208 Tuesday, 26 July 2022 [No 22—2022] FOURTH SESSION, SIXTH PARLIAMENT Warning system to track/detect policy failures 43.
Ms S Shaikh (Limpopo: ANC) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: Whether there is an integrated government-wide early warning system to track and/or detect policy failures and poor implementation; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

CO549E Mobilisation of different sectors 44.


Ms L C Bebee (KwaZulu-Natal: ANC) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: Whether any plans are in place to mobilise the different sector practitioners, knowledge communities and the broader civil society as part of strengthening the government wide policy planning, monitoring and evaluation capacity (details furnished); if not, why not; if so, (a) what plans and (b) what are the further relevant details?
CO550E Repositioning of Presidential Coordinating Council 45.

Mr M Dangor (Gauteng: ANC) to ask the Minister in The Presidency: Whether the Presidential Coordinating Council has been strategically repositioned in order to address the critical hotspot areas in the country like the bulk water supply, the Eskom crisis, public transport crisis, especially the passenger rail transport and crime and security (details furnished); if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

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